Crushing Hearts

For the kids
there is only discovery

even in crushing hearts
or bugs
its all about seeing what
happens

and taking only little steps
from home.

Their love has so few games,
so few requirements,
so few ways to lose it.

Even in stomping the ground
they know where they don't stand
and where the warmth
can always be found.

Watching mine grow
I shed a tear
once in while
to know where they are headed.

All good
but yet
into this world

this world
that we the older
have mended so little.

Rules of many for
home and family
and all the importance
we wrap around words
like good morals
and values

and then leave such
a bad collage
of love and war
and peace and bombs
and knives and flowers
and tanks and shoes
and highs and boredom
and guns and arrows
and holes and bridges
and hearts and deaths
and so little knowing what we really want to do
or maybe just knowing little of why.

Doing all this for any thing more or less than just seeing what happens
makes it no better
in fact worse
when we already know
so
so well
what the hell happens in all we are doing.

They
the kids
have an innocence and a true
not knowing
and need to discover,

but they like us
are taking little steps
into us as we walk out of the picture.

I hope it is
all getting better
with each of them
than we summed.